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The Birdcage
Directed by
Mike Nichols
R
1996
1h 59m
Comedy
,
Romance
7.3
84%
81%
7.1
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A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée's right-wing, conservative parents.
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Cast of The Birdcage
Robin Williams
Armand Goldman
Gene Hackman
Senator Kevin Keeley
Nathan Lane
Albert
Dianne Wiest
Louise Keeley
Dan Futterman
Val Goldman
Calista Flockhart
Barbara Keeley
Hank Azaria
Agador
Christine Baranski
Katharine Archer
Tom McGowan
Harry Radman
Grant Heslov
Photographer - National Enquirer
Kirby Mitchell
Chauffeur
James Lally
Stage Manager
Luca Tommassini
Celsius
Luis Camacho
Goldman Girl
Andre Fuentes
Goldman Girl
Tony Gonzalez
Goldman Girl
Dante Henderson
Goldman Girl
Scott Kaske
Goldman Girl
Kevin Alexander Stea
Goldman Girl
Tim Kelleher
Waiter in Club
The Birdcage Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Reader
Andrea Thompson
Remakes don't get much better than Mike Nichols's The Birdcage, which embraced drag shows long before they became the height of cool, and more unsettlingly, another casualty of the rising tide of fascism.
Filmmaker Magazine
Vadim Rizov
Williams' Armand also allows the latitude for pratfalls, panic and a trademark comic fit, where he howls out and plausibly channels, in rapid succession, the dance styles of Bob Fosse, Martha Graham, Twyla Tharp, Michael Kidd and Madonna...
them.
Michael Cuby
Both hilarious and politically incisive, The Birdcage, a remake of the 1978 French farce La Cage aux Folles, stands up surprisingly well through a modern lens.
The Advocate
Lance Loud
These underlying feelings of compassion, tolerance, and understanding are this Bird's brightest plumage.
Deep Focus Review
Brian Eggert
The Birdcage embraces stereotypes and frequently uses its gay characters as comedic devices, even while it weaves a place for them into the fabric of American culture.
Latinx Lens
Rosa Parra
It's a decent well shot film with moving & memorable performances
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
...a frequently hilarious comedy...
Reel Talk Online
Candice Frederick
The Birdcage is a little film with knee-slapping scenes coupled with thoughtfully acute moments as well.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
This isn't the supreme masterpiece it might have been, but Nichols's direction is very polished and some of the lines and details are awfully funny.
Washington Post
Hal Hinson
If The Birdcage isn't exactly the Mike Nichols-Elaine May movie of our dreams, it does manage to transform what was formerly a campy bit of French fluff into one of the loopiest, most hysterical family-values movies ever made.
Variety
Todd McCarthy
The Birdcage is a scream.
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
A glossy miscalculation with Nathan Lane and Robin Williams.
USA Today
Susan Wloszczyna
Far less plastic than most cross-dressing comedies.
New York Times
Janet Maslin
An American remake with plenty of new pizazz.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
What makes Mike Nichols' version more than just a retread is good casting in the key roles, and a wicked screenplay by Elaine May, who keeps the original story but adds little zingers here and there.
Austin Chronicle
Alison Macor
A bit of a letdown in some ways, The Birdcage nonetheless features some scene-stealing performances.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Basically, the movie's an extended setup for a dinner-table comedy of errors, in which the mismatched relatives confront one another in a nerve-racking test of appearances.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
The beauty of The Birdcage is that its jokes and its message are one and the same. These characters couldn't change themselves if they tried. And only a fool would want them to.
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